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The  board  of  Foreign  Missions  and  the  IPoman’s  board  of 
Foreign  Missions  of  the  Presbyterian  Church,  U.S.A. 

156  Fifth  Auenue,  "Neu?  Ifork  City 


THE  BOARD  OF  FOREIGN  MISSIONS 


Officers 


Rev.  George  Alexander,  D.D 

Mr.  James  M.  Speers . 

Mr.  Robert  E.  Speer 
Rev.  Arthur  J.  Brown,  D.D. 
Rev.  Stanley  White,  D.D. 
Rev.  George  T.  Scott 
Rev.  William  P.  Schell 
Rev.  Orville  Reed,  Pli.D. .  .  . 
Rev.  W.  Reginald  Wheeler .  . 

Rev.  Alfred  W.  Moore . 

Edward  M.  Dodd,  M.D . 

Mr.  Dwight  H.  Day . 

Mr.  Russell  Carter . . 

Mr.  Clarence  A.  Steele . 

Mr.  B.  Carter  Millikin . 

Rev.  Edwin  E.  White . 

T.  H.  P.  Sailer,  Ph.D . 

Rev.  George  H.  Trull . 


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...  .  President 
Vice-President 


Secretaries 


. Associate  Secretary 

. Assistant  Secretary 

. Assistant  Secretary 

. Acting  Medical  Secretary 

. . Treasurer 

. Associate  Treasurer 

. Assistant  Treasurer 

. Educational  Secretary 

Assistant  Educational  Secretary 
.Honorary  Educational  Adviser 
....  Secretary  for  Specific  Work 


District  Secretaries 

Rev.  Charles  E.  Bradt,  D.D . Central  District,  Chicago 

Mr.  J.  M.  Patterson . Southern  District,  St.  Louis 

Rev.  W.  M.  Cleaveland,  D.D., 

Associate  Secretary  . Southern  District,  St.  Louis 

Rev.  Weston  T.  Johnson,  D.D . Western  District,  San  Francisco 

Rev.  Ernest  E.  Hall,  D.D . Field  Secretary ,  New  York 

Rev.  Edward  Roberts.  .Among  Welsh-speaking  churches,  Madison,  Wis. 


THE  WOMAN’S  BOARD  OF  FOREIGN  MISSIONS 


Miss  Margaret  E.  Hodge 
Miss  Alice  M.  Davison .  . 
Mrs.  John  Harvey  Lee.  . 
Mrs.  John  R.  McCurdy. 


. President 

,  .First -Vice. President 
Second  Vice-President 
.  .Recording  Secretary 


Executive  Officers 


Mrs.  Charles  K.  Roys.  .  . 

Miss  Lucy  Lepper . 

Miss  Gertrude  Schultz.  . 
Miss  Faye  A.  Steinmetz 

Miss  Marcia  Kerr . 

Miss  Ann  T.  Reid . 

Miss  Mary  W.  Kerr.  .  . 

Mrs.  Julia  L.  Mills . 

Miss  Florence  G.  Tyler 
Miss  Mary  Eliza  Clark 
Miss  Rose  D.  Wilson 


. General  Secretary 

. Treasurer 

. Secretary,  Missionary  Education 

. Secretary  for  Young  People’s  Work 

Assistant  Secretary,  Young  People’s  Work 

. Candidate  Secretary 

. Secretary  for  Specific  Work 

. Publicity  Secretary 

Secretaries  for  Student  Work  jointly  with 
W Oman’s  Board  (>f  Home  Missions 


District  Secretaries 

Mrs.  Andrew  Todd  Taylor . Secretary  for  Philadelphia  District 

Mrs.  James  Duguid,  Jr . Secretary  for  New  York  District 

Mrs.  E.  H.  Silverthorn . Secretary  for  Northwest  District 

Mrs.  Wallace  S.  Faris . Secretary  for  Southwest  District 

Mrs.  Evelyn  Browne  Keck . Secretary  for  Occidental  District 

Mrs.  Charles  W.  Williams . Secretary  for  North  Pacific  District 


Field  Secretaries 

Miss  Mary  J.  Barry,  Mrs.  R.  M.  Graham,  Mrs.  S.  I.  Lindsay, 

Miss  Ruth  McComb 


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The  Presbyterian  Church  Works  Alone  In 


Population 

French  Cameroun,  West  Africa .  2,540,000 

Colombia,  South  America .  5,847,491 

Venezuela,  South  America .  2,323,527 


Persia 


"  8,000,000 

between  and 


10,000,000 


Siam  .  8,924,000 

Island  of  Hainan,  China .  1,500,000 


The  Accepted  Responsibility  of  the  Presbyterian  Church 

Population 


Hainan  .  1,500,000 

French  Cameroun .  2,500,000 


Latin  America,  of  which  Colombia  and 


Venezuela  are  a  part . 10,000,000 

Persia .  5,000,000 

Siam  .  5,000,000 


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THE  BUDGET  OF  THE  FISCAL  YEAR 

April  1,  1921,  to  March  31,  1922 

Allotted  to  the  Foreign  Board  by  the  Execu¬ 
tive  Commission  for  the  year  beginning 
April  1,  1921,  to  be  secured  from  living 
sources  . $3,960,000.00 

Total  appropriations  of  the  Board  for  the 

entire  year  .  4,001,682.72 

Where  the  Funds  Came  From 

Living  sources  —  churches,  Sunday-schools 


and  individuals .  2,444,143.06 

Woman’s  Board  of  Foreign  Missions  and 

Young  People’s  Organizations .  1,336,639.59 

Legacies  and  other  credits .  286,975.59 


Total  $4,067,758.24 

Surplus,  $66,075.52 

Surplus  applied  to  deficit,  carried  over 
from  War  years,  reducing  it  to  $129,562.71 

The  cost  at  home  for  the  administration  of  this 
$4,067,758.24  on  the  same  basis  as  last  year  was  7.9  per 
cent.  Including  the  Board’s  share,  2.4  per  cent.,  of  the 
New  Era  expenses,  the  total  cost  was  10.3  per  cent. 


ALPHA 


5 


THE  BUDGET  OF  THE  FISCAL  YEAR 

April  1,  1922,  to  March  31,  1923 

The  Board’s  request  of  the  Executive  Com¬ 
mission  was  for  a  budget  of  not  less  than  $5,119,725 


The  Executive  Commission  allotted  to  The 
Board  and  the  Woman’s  Board,  to  be  se¬ 
cured  from  living  sources .  4,643,000 

The  Board  has  appropriated  at  the  beginning 

of  the  year  a  minimum  sum  of .  3,738,982 


THE  SCOPE  OF  THE  EXPENDITURE 

The  work  of  the  Presbyterian  Church  through  its 
Board  of  Foreign  Missions  has  grown  to  such  an  extent 
that  during  the  coming  year  the  sum  of  $2,000,000  will  be 
required  for  the  salaries  of  missionaries,  allowances  for 
their  children  and  travel  to  and  from  the  field.  To  cover 
the  salaries  and  expenses  of  new  missionaries,  $123,000 
will  be  needed. 

To  supplement  the  native  work  on  the  foreign  field 
(evangelistic,  educational,  medical,  industrial  and  press 
work)  $1,006,623  will  be  expended. 

Other  classes  of  expenditure  are  health  furlough 
changes,  furlough  study  in  America,  furlough  relief,  rent¬ 
al  allowances,  cooperative  work  in  the  United  States, 
publicity,  education,  promotion,  administration,  and  the 
Board’s  share  of  the  expenses  of  the  New  Era  Movement. 
Gifts  for  property  will  be  appropriated  and  expended 
when  received. 

RECEIPTS  ON  THE  FOREIGN  FIELD 

Raised  on  the  foreign  field  for  the  work,  additional 
to  the  Board  appropriations :  tuition,  medical  fees  and 
contributions  of  the  native  Church 

$1,801,022 


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THE  YEAR  1921-1922 


The  year’s  Budget  was  received 


as  follows: 

April  . 

$  41,529.97 

May . 

91,651.29 

June . 

133,432.85 

July . 

348,628.48 

August . 

107,336.18 

September  .  .  . 

113,393.85 

October  . 

287,576.28 

November  .  .  . 

236,164.38 

December  . .  .  . 

216,948.18 

January  .  .  .  . 

414,593.96 

February  .  .  . . 

257,941.08 

March . 

1,669,803.96 

Total . 

$3,919,000.46 

Other  Credits. 

148,757.78 

Each  of  these  months  rep¬ 
resented  an  expenditure  of 

$333,473.56 

Churches,  societies  and  in¬ 
dividuals  remitted  slowly. 

The  Board  had  to  borrow 
funds. 

The  interest  on  borrowed 
money  was  $6,378.71. 


$4,067,758.24 

40%  of  the  year’s  Budget 
was  received  in  March. 


An  eleventh  hour  appeal 

had  to  be  made. 


THE  YEAR  1922-1923 

Monthly  or  Quarterly  remittances  of  money  should 
be  made  to  the  Board. 

Each  remittance  should  be  accurate^  designated  if 
for  a  special  field  or  object. 

It  is  physically  impossible  to  credit  without  error  the 
mass  of  gifts  coming  in  the  last  few  days  of  the 
fiscal  year. 


WHY  NOT  REMIT  PROMPTLY  AND  ACCURATELY 
DURING  THE  NEW  YEAR  AHEAD? 


OTTIEQA  and  ALPHA 


7 


MEDICAL  DEPARTMENT 

This  new  department  is  in  charge  of  a  furloughed 

medical  missionary  as  Acting  Medical  Secretary. 

Its  Aim 

To  conserve  the  health  of  the  missionaries  with  special 
reference  to  the  health  problems  during  furlough. 

To  supervise  the  health  qualifications  of  candidates. 

To  promote  and  cooperate  with  the  medical  branch  of 
the  work. 

1.  Recruiting  in  colleges,  medical  schools  and  hos¬ 
pitals. 

2.  Assisting  the  medical  missionaries  in  every  pos¬ 
sible  way,  with  their  problems  on  the  field,  with 
their  purchasing  of  supplies,  and  with  their  post¬ 
graduate  study  in  America. 

3.  Acting  as  a  general  clearing-house  for  medical 
missionary  plans  and  policies. 


^Literature 


<The  gear’s  Record  of  Boll 

153,546  Sales  in  all  District! 
78,905  Sales  at  Headquarter 
523,708  Free  Leaflets  Distri  i 


Department 


The  Qraphic 
Link 

Between  the 
Field  and 
The 

Constituency 


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Rev.  J  ohn  Elder,  honor 
student,  W ashington 
and  Jefferson  College. 
Graduate  of  McCor¬ 
mick  Theological  Sem¬ 
inary,  1922,  his  Semitic, 
fellowship  to  be  taken 
in  Beirut  en  route  to 
Persia.  (Teacher.) 


Dr.  Ellis  H.  Hudson,  of 
University  of  Pennsyl¬ 
vania  Medical  School. 
After  three  years  of 
teaching  experience  in 
the  Syrian  Protestant 
College  he  has  been 
assigned  to  the  Syria 
Mission. 


Rev.  W.  Wendell  Duff. 
An  honor  student  of 
Westminster  College. 
Graduate  of  McCor¬ 
mick  Theological  Sem¬ 
inary,  has  been  as¬ 
signed  to  the  Pun¬ 
jab  Mission.  (Evan¬ 
gelistic.) 


Candidates  applying  in  1921-1922 . .  515 

Candidates  appointed  in  1921-1922 .  106 

New  missionaries  who  sailed .  110 


Marion  Dwight  Lock- 
wood,  M.D.  Graduate 
of  University  of  Cali¬ 
fornia  Medical  School 
in  1922;  assigned  to 
North  India  Mission. 


Ruth  Roche  received 
her  A.B.  from  Welles¬ 
ley  in  1920.  Is  the 
fiancee  of  Rev.  John 
Elder;  goes  to  the 
East  Persia  Mission. 


Frances  P.  Irwin  is  a 
graduate  of  the  Uni¬ 
versity  of  Minnesota 
and  has  been  assigned 
to  the  Syria  Mission 
as  a  teacher. 


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Elgin  Sherk,  graduate 
of  University  of  Syra¬ 
cuse;  four  years  Secre¬ 
tary  of  Syracuse  Uni¬ 
versity  Y.M.C.A.;  as¬ 
signed  to  East  Persia 
Mission  as  a  special 
worker  for  young  men. 


B.  A.  Garside,  of  Uni¬ 
versity  of  Oklahoma; 
now  taking  his  M.A.  at 
Columbia  University; 
will  be  sent  to  China 
on  educational  work  in 
the  Shantung  Chris¬ 
tian  University. 


J.  D.  Payne  is  a  thor¬ 
oughly  trained  busi¬ 
ness  man.  He  has  been 
appointed  and  assigned 
to  the  East  Persia  Mis¬ 
sion  to  fill  the  position 
of  Business  Agent  fot 
Teheran. 


Requests  from  the  foreign  field  for  reinforcement.  .  .  212 
Appointed  and  ready  to  sail  in  summer  of  1922 .  70 

Additional  number  of  missionaries  whom  the  Board 

is  trying  to  secure .  100 

i  o 


Ruth  W.  Bradley  grad¬ 
uated  from  Cornell 
University  and  has 
been  appointed  to  Co¬ 
lombia,  South  America, 
as  a  teacher. 


Agnes  L.  Barland  is 
a  graduate  of  Oberlin 
College  and  Johns  Hop¬ 
kins  University.  She 
has  been  appointed  to 
the  Siam  Mission. 


Georgia  N.  Luccock  is 
a  Wooster  College 
graduate.  After  her 
marriage  to  the  Rev. 
Ross  fi.  Stoddard  she 
will  go  to  North  China. 


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The 

Educational 

Department 


1921-22 


More  than  104,000  Presbyterians  studied 
Foreign  Missions  in  4,088  classes.  Of  these 
classes,  131  were  groups  of  men  with  an 
approximate  membership  of  2,700.  These 
reports  come  from  2,190  different  churches. 


Foreign 

Mission 


Banner  Study 

Churches  Classes 

Kansas  City,  Mo., 

Westport  Ave .  34 

Berkeley,  Calif.,  First .  25 

San  Diego,  Calif.,  First .  22 


Detroit,  Mich.,  Covenant.  ...  21 


Foreign 

Mission 


Banner  Study 

Presbyteries  Classes 

Detroit .  179 

Los  Angeles .  148 

Washington  City .  110 

Philadelphia .  107 

Kansas  City .  99 


Systematic  Missionary  Education  in  the  Sunday 
Schools  shows  a  marked  increase.  So  does  the  use  of  the 
Board’s  special  Christmas  and  Easter  programs. 


The  Lantern  Slide  Service  of  the  Board  was  placed 
under  the  Educational  Department  in  July,  1921.  Since 
then  it  has  been  thoroughly  reorganized.  The  bookings 
of  our  lectures— 1,396  in  eight  months — register  the  appre¬ 
ciation  of  the  improved  service. 


ALPHA 


13 


The  Theme  for  Foreign  Mission  Study  1922-23 


“Christ  for  India’s  Multitudes” 


Text  Books 

Building  with  India 

Daniel  Johnson  Fleming 
For  Men  and  Women  and 
M  ixed  Groups 

India  on  the  March 

Alden  H.  Clark 
For  Young  People — 16  to  20 

Lighted  to  Lighten 

Alice  Van  Doren 
For  Young  Women 

The  Wonderland  of  India 

Helen  M.  Rockey  and  Harold  B. 
Hunting 
For  Juniors 

A  Child  Garden  in  India 

Amelia  Josephine  Burr 
For  Little  Folk — 4  to  6  years 


September  first,  the  Educational  Department  will 
issue  Helps  for  study  class  leaders,  Courses  of  Study  and 
Programs  for  the  Sunday  School,  Picture  sheets  and  other 
supplementary  materials. 

Beautifully  illustrated  new  stereopticon  lectures  on 
India  and  other  fields  will  also  be  released. 


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THE  DEPARTMENT  FOR  SPECIFIC  WORK 


Exists  to  Help 


Churches 


Sunday  schools 


> 


Individuals 


invest  in 
the  sup¬ 
port  of 


Missionaries 
Mission  Stations 


Keeps  Mission  Stations  in 
touch  with  supporters  at  home 

By  Providing  By  Encouraging 

Field  letters  regularly  Supporters  to  corre- 

throughout  the  year  for  spond  regularly  with 

the  supporters  their  missionaries 


The  Department  Keeps  Supporters  Informed 

of  vital  matters  affecting  their  missionaries,  of  illness, 
transfer  to  other  stations,  plans  for  furloughs.  Closer 
relations  between  missionaries  and  their  supporters  is  a 
marked  result  of  the  service  rendered  by  the  Department. 


A  Distinct  Achievement 

The  publication  of  Pen  Pictures,  descriptive  graphic 
sketches  of  every  Mission,  issued  in  attractive  form,  with 
full  page  illustrated  cover.  Also  similar  sketches  in 
mimeograph  fo'rm  of  each  Station.  The  perusal  of  these 
Pen  Pictures  is  a  liberal  education  in  the  work  of  the 
Foreign  Board,  in  its  170  stations. 


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15 


HIGH  LIGHTS 

A  feature  of  the  meeting  of  the  General  Assembly  of 
the  Indian  Presbyterian  Church,  held  December  28  to  Jan¬ 
uary  2  at  Allahabad,  was  the  impassioned  plea  of  Rev.  A. 
llalla  Ram,  that  the  Indian  Church  send  missionaries  to 
other  lands.  Tibet  and  Mesopotamia  were  suggested  as 
possible  fields  of  effort.  The  discussion  that  centered 
around  an  overture  that  foreign  missionary  work  be  under¬ 
taken  was  followed  by  the  appointment  of  a  committee  to 
prepare  plans  for  undertaking  this  new  effort.  Resolu¬ 
tions  were  also  adopted  by  the  Assembly  requesting  the 
Indian  government  to  prohibit  the  sale  and  manufacture 
of  liquor,  except  for  medicinal  and  commercial  purposes, 
and  also  to  take  action  against  commercialized  vice. 


Religious  services  in  Chosen  (Korea)  are  largely  at¬ 
tended.  The  General  Assembly  of  the  Presbyterian  Church 
in  Korea,  which  was  constituted  with  seven  Presbvteries 
in  1912,  now  lias  nineteen  Presbyteries.  The  annual  meet¬ 
ing  of  the  Assembly  was  an  occasion  of  remarkable  interest 
and  encouragement.  In  November  the  first  Korean  national 

Sundav  School  Convention  was  held  in  Seoul  and  was 
•/ 

attended  by  more  than  900  delegates  from  all  over  the 
•country.  It  was  a  representative  gathering. 


The  Presbyterian  Church  alone  is  responsible  for  the 
Cameroun  field  in  AVest  Africa.  The  forces  of  Mohammed¬ 
anism  are  coming  from  the  north  and  those  of  Christianity 
are  advancing  from  the  south.  They  are  meeting  now  near 
the  equator.  The  missionaries  who  are  stationed  on  this 
critical  line  state  that  the  Church  in  West  A  frica  has  never 
faced  such  determined  efforts  on  the  part  of  Moham¬ 
medans  to  persuade  all  the  remaining  non-Mohammedan 
tribes  to  become  followers  of  the  false  prophet. 


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HIGH  LIGHTS 

( Continued ) 

February  10,  1922,  as  the  American  Mission  Press  at 
Beirut  celebrated  its  one-hundredth  birthday,  there  came 
as  a  birthday  present  the  largest  order  Mesopotamia  has 
yet  placed  for  publications.  But  the  most  interesting 
feature  was  its  delivery  by  aeroplane  in  two  days  from 
Busrah  to  Syria.  As  a  rule  the  exchange  of  letters  by 
this  route  takes  approximately  three  months. 


The  greatest  degree  of  religious  toleration  in  the  Mo¬ 
hammedan  world  is  probably  found  in  Teheran,  the  capital 
of  Persia.  During  the  past  year  nine  converts  from  Islam, 
two  of  them  converted  priests,  have  taken  charge  of 
regular  church  services,  six  of  them  have  preached  in  the 
Sunday  morning  service  before  congregations  of  from  200 
to  300,  the  majority  of  whom  were  Moslems. 


Chiengrung  in  the  southern  part  of  the  Province  of 
Yunnan,  China,  is  one  of  the  largest  in  area  and  in  popu¬ 
lation  of  any  of  the  unoccupied  fields  in  the  world.  Fifteen 
days  north  of  Chiengrung,  there  are  almost  600  converts 
who  are  waiting  for  instruction  in  the  Christian  faith, 
having  already  clone  away  with  their  spirit  shrines. 


In  Brazil  a  mob  of  500  men  broke  into  the  Presbvte- 
rian  chapel,  dragged  all  the  furniture,  Bibles,  books,  etc., 
into  the  street,  poured  kerosene  over  them  and  burned 
everything.  Then  the}r  rushed  on  and  meeting  the  pastor, 
Rev.  Andre  Jensen,  would  have  lynched  him  on  the  spot, 
had  it  not  been  for  the  courage  of  a  jiolice  sergeant,  who 
put  the  pastor  and  two  believers  in  jail  where  he  kept 
them  for  three  days  until  a  sufficient  number  of  police 
were  gathered  to  protect  them. 


